When the history books are written, Zohran Mamdani will surely mark the start of a new chapter in American politics.

He looks likely to win the race for New York City mayor in November — yet even if he loses, socialists have won the fight for the soul of the Democratic Party.

This story won’t end well for anyone in America.

Republicans like me have been warning about the rise of socialism among Democrats for years.

In 2016, Bernie Sanders came closer to the party’s presidential nomination than many expected. In 2018, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was elected to Congress with the wind at her back.

That same wind carried Mamdani, an official member of the Democratic Socialists of America, to a crushing victory in this year’s mayoral primary.

But the real — and most alarming — shift is a

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